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GENERAL ORDERS, 



No. Q&. 



WAR DEPARTMENT, 

Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, April 16, 1865. 



The followiug order of the Secretary of War announces to the Armies 
of the United States the untimely and lamentable death of the illustrious 
Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States : 

WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Washington City, April 16, 1865. 

The distressing duty has devolved upon the Secretary of War to 
announce to the Armies of the United States, that at twenty-two 
minutes after seven o'clock, on the morning of Saturday, the fifteenth 
day of April, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 
died of a mortal wound inflicted upon him by an assassin. 

The Armies of the United States will share with their fellow-citizens 
the feelings of grief and horror inspired by this most atrocious murder 
of their great and beloved President and Commander-in-Chief, and with 
profound sorrow will mourn his death as a national calamity. 

The Headquarters of every Department, Post, Station, Fort, and 
Arsenal will be draped in mourning for thirty days, and appropriate 
funeral honors will be paid by every Army, and in every Department, 
and at every Military Post, and at the Military Academy at West Point, 
to the memory of the late illustrious Chief Magistrate of the Nation, 
and Commander-in-Chief of its Armies. 

Lieutenant General Grant will give the necessary instructions for 
carrying this order into effect. 

EDWIN M. STANTON 

Secretary of IVar. 

On the day after the receipt of this order at the Headquarters of each 
Military Division, Department, Army, Post, Station, Fort, and Arsenal, 
and at the Military Academy at West Point, the troops and cadets will 
be paraded at 10 o'clock a. m., and the order read to them ; after which 
all labors and operations for the day will cease and be suspended, as far 
as practicable in a state of war. 

The national flag will be displayed at half-staff. 

At dawn of day thirteen guns will be fired, and afterwards, at intervals 



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of thirty minutes, between the rising and setting sun, a single gun, 
and at the close of the day a national salute of thirty-six guns. 

The officers of the Armies of the United States will wear the badge 
of mourning on the left arm and on their swords, and the colors of their 
commands and regiments will be put in mourning for the period of 
six months. 

By command of Lieutenant General Grant: 

W. A. NICHOLS, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 

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